The drawing or painting of anything on someone's skin. The tattoo is usually drawn or written with permanent ink.
by SweetDonutJeff June 11, 2018
Get the Tattoomug. 1v.To insert pigment into the same layer of the skin that melanin is in. The broken top layer of skin then flakes off and when it heals pigment in permanently embedded there.
2n. a permanent mark made by tattooing
3n a design for application as a tattoo
tattoo designs usually reflect the mores and culture ( or subculture) of the wearer.
Some anthropologists theorize that
humans have always tattooed ourselves
(the oldest specimens of tattooed flesh Dated-3300 correlate with Chinese acupuncture meridians and may have been to heal the subject.)
4n. the craft of making tattoos
Tattoos are gaining increased popularity in the last decade due to increased media attention. Tattoos serve to bond together and define groups of people and are perfectly acceptable to most people as long as they are within the mores of the bearers particular group or subculture.
Tattoo is considered a handicraft by most college level art teachers and by their definition cannot be fine art.
Tattoo is taught by apprenticeship and takes years to learn and decades to master. Some states and countries have a ban on tattooing, but in most areas it is regulated on a local level, by OSHA there are many tattoo fan clubs world wide like the APT (Alliance for Professional Tattooists)
With the increasing popularity of Tattoo there are many people out to profit from the movement, semiskilled scratchers, tattoo "schools",franchise shops,show promoters, magazines and the media.
It has changed the face of tattooing.
2n. a permanent mark made by tattooing
3n a design for application as a tattoo
tattoo designs usually reflect the mores and culture ( or subculture) of the wearer.
Some anthropologists theorize that
humans have always tattooed ourselves
(the oldest specimens of tattooed flesh Dated-3300 correlate with Chinese acupuncture meridians and may have been to heal the subject.)
4n. the craft of making tattoos
Tattoos are gaining increased popularity in the last decade due to increased media attention. Tattoos serve to bond together and define groups of people and are perfectly acceptable to most people as long as they are within the mores of the bearers particular group or subculture.
Tattoo is considered a handicraft by most college level art teachers and by their definition cannot be fine art.
Tattoo is taught by apprenticeship and takes years to learn and decades to master. Some states and countries have a ban on tattooing, but in most areas it is regulated on a local level, by OSHA there are many tattoo fan clubs world wide like the APT (Alliance for Professional Tattooists)
With the increasing popularity of Tattoo there are many people out to profit from the movement, semiskilled scratchers, tattoo "schools",franchise shops,show promoters, magazines and the media.
It has changed the face of tattooing.
1" I am going to tattoo you."
2"I saw her leg tattoo."
3."Did I draw your tattoo right?"
4."She is a master of custom Tattoo."
2"I saw her leg tattoo."
3."Did I draw your tattoo right?"
4."She is a master of custom Tattoo."
by vaunderbroad October 5, 2008
Get the Tattoomug. Do you see her tattoo's
yeah there ugly I don't know why people do that to there bodies
She looks like a storybook it's amazing.
yeah there ugly I don't know why people do that to there bodies
She looks like a storybook it's amazing.
by BOOBOOBABY2005 June 29, 2020
Get the Tattoomug. by Killing Kittens November 29, 2006
Get the tattoomug. tattoo is a form of body modification.
'ink permanently implanted under the skin
Tattooing is a process by which pigment (ink) is permanently deposited (implanted) under the skin (well, into the non-exfoliating layers of skin).
We have archeological records of tattooing going well into pre-history (the tattooed iceman dates at 3300 BC). The word itself sources from "tattau", a Tahitian word which translates essentially as "to mark".' -Shannon Larratt
nowadays, there are technology to remove the tattoo such as a laser. thus, meaning the tattoo is a tattoo till is removed.
'ink permanently implanted under the skin
Tattooing is a process by which pigment (ink) is permanently deposited (implanted) under the skin (well, into the non-exfoliating layers of skin).
We have archeological records of tattooing going well into pre-history (the tattooed iceman dates at 3300 BC). The word itself sources from "tattau", a Tahitian word which translates essentially as "to mark".' -Shannon Larratt
nowadays, there are technology to remove the tattoo such as a laser. thus, meaning the tattoo is a tattoo till is removed.
by sangre October 4, 2004
Get the tattoomug. by Aquahutchison February 13, 2012
Get the tattoomug. When someone gets slapped across the face, in which a highly visible mark is left for anywhere from hours to days. Usually happens when parties clash. Basically getting tagged, only the "ink" is always red.
Guy: Damn Robin, what the hell happened to you?
Homie: I totaled my dad's car. Never seen him so steamed in his life. Got tattooed on the right cheek.
Peeps: Shit, looks like that ink's gonna stick around for a while. Lucky he ain't knock any teeth out your grill.
Homie: I totaled my dad's car. Never seen him so steamed in his life. Got tattooed on the right cheek.
Peeps: Shit, looks like that ink's gonna stick around for a while. Lucky he ain't knock any teeth out your grill.
by D. Liverance May 2, 2013
Get the tattooedmug.